Oral Histories - link for journal entries

Follow this link to submit your daily entry after reading in your assigned oral history
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGJoWU1QczVmSHBzRHlrY19xSkdVZWc6MQ#gid=0


Major Assessment: Modern-day Soldiers = Ancient Warriors?


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Major Assessment: Brutality/Civility

Complete cluster description (includes description of and rubric for brutality synthesis)





Major Assessment: Storyteller Synthesis


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Honors Warrior Tales

Interview a military veteran and create an audio or video document (using iMovie or GarageBand) which conveys to outside readers the reality of the war experience from that person's first hand account.
See attached document.






Links to recent Pulitzer-Prize award winning photography:

2006 Feature Photography Pulitzer award
Awarded to Todd Heisler of Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado, for his haunting, behind-the-scenes look at funerals for Colorado Marines who return from Iraq in caskets.
http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2006-Feature-Photography

2005 Breaking News Photography Pulitzer Prize award
Awarded to Associated Press Staff for its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities.
http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2005-Breaking-News-Photography

2004 Breaking News Photography Pulitzer Prize award
Awarded to David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer of The Dallas Morning News for their eloquent photographs depicting both the violence and poignancy of the war with Iraq.
http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2004-Breaking-News-Photography


Every few weeks, take the Participation Reflection survey to weigh in on how you evaluate your own ability to add to the classroom atmosphere over the past weeks. Information from this survey will be used to determine separate participation grades which will cumulatively count toward the 20% Participation portion of your quarter grade.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGRURTFiV2tvSHhkUkxTRlZFM3pUWWc6MA..



President Obama's speech accepting Nobel Peace Prize

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B92KK20091210?WT.srch=1&WT.mc_id=obamanobel
If you use in your essay, cite this source this way:
Obama, Barak. "President Obama's Speech at Nobel Ceremony." Reuters USA. December 10, 2009. 14 December, 2009. http://www.reuters.com/article
/idUSTRE5B92KK20091210?WT.srch=1&WT.mc_id=obamanobel

Posted here is the description of Synthesis essay #3, focusing on the statement: A true warrior successfully straddles the line between brutality and civility.









Follow this link to the article "To Homer, Iraq Would be More of the Same" by Edward Rothstein published June 5, 2004 in the New York Times


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/05/movies/connections-to-homer-iraq-would-be-more-of-same.html



Screenplay of Troy (2004) by David Benioff


Use the attached screenplay if you need specific quotes from characters. Patroklos' rush into fighting in Achilles' armor, Hektor killing him, and Achilles going to the gates of Troy to face Hektor are on pages 113-138.